Alternative stable states in ecology.¶
Beisner, B. E., Haydon, D. T., & Cuddington, K. (2003). Alternative stable states in ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 1(7), 376-382.
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- Attractor Selection and Basin Control
- The structural insight applies wherever stable states coexist: chemical reactors with multiple equilibrium concentrations, neural networks settling into multiple local minima, organizations converging to different cultural patterns, ecosystems locked into alternative stable regimes, as Beisner, Haydon, and Cuddington (2003) document in their cross-domain review of alternative stable states.
This sourceReviews alternative stable states across ecosystems: defines the multiplicity/bistability criterion, distinguishes community vs. ecosystem perspectives, and establishes feedback self-reinforcement as the stabilizing mechanism. SUPPORTS marker 049 (cross-domain coexisting stable regimes).
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Supports coexisting alternative stable states in ecological communities and ecosystems only; it is not a cross-domain review spanning reactors, neural nets or organizations.
“Ecologists are gathering increasing empirical support for the idea, first proposed in the 1960s ( Lewontin 1969 ), that communities can be found in one of several possible alternative stable states”
- The structural insight applies wherever stable states coexist: chemical reactors with multiple equilibrium concentrations, neural networks settling into multiple local minima, organizations converging to different cultural patterns, ecosystems locked into alternative stable regimes, as Beisner, Haydon, and Cuddington (2003) document in their cross-domain review of alternative stable states.
- Recovery
- The possibly-transformed endpoint is the load-bearing feature the frame insists on: the recovered forest often does not return to its exact pre-fire composition, and in fire-adapted systems may stabilize into a different community entirely — an alternative stable state that is a success of recovery, not a failure of restoration.
This sourceEstablishes that disturbed ecosystems may recover to an alternative stable state rather than the pre-disturbance community.
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Supplies the general ecological idea that a disturbed community can settle in a different stable state rather than returning to its starting condition; says nothing about forests or fire.
“If the new state to which the community has been moved is stable, ceasing a perturbation applied to state variables will not result in the return of the community to initial conditions.”
- The possibly-transformed endpoint is the load-bearing feature the frame insists on: the recovered forest often does not return to its exact pre-fire composition, and in fire-adapted systems may stabilize into a different community entirely — an alternative stable state that is a success of recovery, not a failure of restoration.
- Regime Change
- Regime change encodes a structural pattern with five interlocking properties. First, bistability or multiplicity: the system admits at least two distinct stable states (regimes), each self-reinforcing through feedback loops, as Beisner, Haydon, and Cuddington (2003) formalize in their treatment of alternative stable states in ecology.
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Beisner et al. formalize alternative stable states as two or more locally stable states, but do not describe each regime as self-reinforcing through feedback loops.
“Demonstration of at least two states that are each locally stable is sufficient evidence for alternative stable states.”
- Regime change encodes a structural pattern with five interlocking properties. First, bistability or multiplicity: the system admits at least two distinct stable states (regimes), each self-reinforcing through feedback loops, as Beisner, Haydon, and Cuddington (2003) formalize in their treatment of alternative stable states in ecology.
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